The F-35 is a complicated program. That’s not really news, I know. Technologically, the jet may be the most advanced piece of hardware the military has ever played with, requiring millions of lines of code and all sorts of gadgets spread over three physically different models. Economically, it’s a Frankenstein’s monster of a program, with a trio of…

Much of the Air Force’s new long-range strike bomber program is shrouded in mystery. But that doesn’t mean the advertising about it has to be. The above image was taken at the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor, Maryland, during this week’s Air Force Association Air & Space Conference. Northrop Grumman locked down the single biggest physical piece…

It’s time for another edition of the Defense News Minute. This week Brad talks with Aaron about his trip to Chicago to attend the National Guard Association’s annual conference with Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force Chief of Staff. For more from the trip, check out Aaron’s writeup of the conference.

In 2014, the Pentagon is all about energy efficiency. Making engines run cleaner and get every ounce of energy out a gallon of fuel could get you that extra mile in a tanker mission or extra two minutes in air for an ISR plane. It’s a path for cost savings with higher mission efficiency.…

Last Thursday, Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin tweeted out a not-so-subtle jab at US President Barack Obama. We have different values and allies pic.twitter.com/aJ1312jJNx — Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) July 31, 2014 It’s just the latest — if most animal-centric — shot fired on Rogozin’s english-language twitter feed, @DRogozin. (Defense News has been unable to determine why…

On Wednesday July 30, the US Air Force unveiled it’s new “30-year” guidance for what the service has to do to stray relevant for the next three decades. It’s a relatively thin document — it clocks in at 22 pages — and provides more “guidelines” than actual direction. Still, those guidelines are quiet interesting. Our…

With another Farnborough International Airshow in the books, reporters are turning our eyes towards the future and already beginning to prepare for next year’s Paris Airshow. But before we close the book on our time in the UK, we wanted to make sure you know where to find all of our coverage. All of our…

For fans of the F-35, it’s been an exhausting few weeks. When the F-35A model known as AF-27 caught fire on the morning of June 23, there was instant speculation about whether it could impact the arrival in the UK. I fully admit I was one of those who believed that, come burning engine parts or…

UPDATE 7/15/14 10:07 GMT — The following was a story written the morning and posted on Intercepts. It has since been moved to the main DefenseNews.com site. Additionally, this article is now out of date, as the F-35 has been declared out for the remained of the Farnborough Air Show. For the latest from the show…

If four F-35B jets make it to Farnborough International Airshow this week, we’ll have had a little heads up thanks to a post by whomever managed the Facebook account for Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Below is a screengrab of a post on the base’s official Facebook page. The post in question was a note saying the four jets remain…